Santiago Giraldo Arboleda

Santiago is a Colombian film director based in London. He has focused his career on exploring film, music and transmedia narratives. His artistic production includes the direction of five short films, over ten music videos, two multimedia art exhibitions, one illustrated book, and three TV commercials for the NHS. Santiago has a BA in Graphic Design, an MA in Documentary Filmmaking from the Colombian University UPB and an MA in Audio Production from the University of Westminster.

In his documentary “La Mirada Desnuda” (2020) he depicts the story of one of the most violent cities in the world during the 90s, Medellin. La Mirada Desnuda was selected and premiered for the FICCI 2020 (Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias), and won the Best Documentary Short Film prize at the Festival de Cine de Jardín.

Currently he works as a creative director at Eagle London Agency in the UK, With them he is currently developing 3 new short films focused on Migration.